The Treo 700w will undoubtedly, like the Palm OS Treo 650, be one of the most hottest smartphones on the market this year. It boasts the extremely popular Treo design and usability married to the power of Windows Mobile 5.0. If you're a Pocket PC fan who always longed for that Treo look and feel, you may just find yourself in heaven.

Palm and Verizon tell us that Verizon will be the only carrier to offer the Treo 700w for the first 6 months. Verizon's selection of PDA phones, feature phones and their EVDO network continue to impress us in the last few months. The Treo 700w exclusive will surely further their appeal in the US.

The Treo 700w was announced at CES in Las Vegas by Verizon Wireless and Palm on Jan. 4th, 2006 and the phone is available in Verizon stores beginning Jan. 5th. It costs $499 with a two year contract and you'll get $100 off if you get both a voice plan costing $39.99 or more and Verizon's unlimited data plan ($40 to $45/month). Verizon's data plan entitles you to use their 3G EVDO high speed network as well as 1xRTT. EVDO gets between 400 to 700k and 1xRTT gets around 100k/sec. We're using the Treo 700w in an EVDO market and page loading and email download speeds are superb. It feels like WiFi, yet you need not be in range of an access point.

For those of you considering cross-grading from the Treo 650, you'll be happy to hear that the 700w uses all the same accessories including cables, chargers and batteries. Since the two devices run very different operating systems, Treo 650 software won't work on the 700w and vice versa.

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